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At least nine climbers were killed late Saturday by gunmen at the base camp for the Diamir Face on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat, one the worlds 14 8,000-meter peaks. A branch of the Pakistan Taliban has claimed credit for the unprecedented attack. Other climbers on the mountain are apparently safe.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the climber who was one of two men to make the first ascent of Mount Everest, in 1953, died in his native New Zealand. In May, 1953, Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first human beings to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. The extraordinary event made both men famous. Hillary had been in failing health for several years.